Bayesian perspectives on the discovery of the Higgs particle

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0943-6zbMath1385.81050OpenAlexW2103259259MaRDI QIDQ1708763

Richard Dawid

Publication date: 27 March 2018

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/11700/1/%28Synthese%29Bayesian_Perspectives_on_the_Discovery_of_the_Higgs.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

confirmationhigh energy physicsHiggs particleBayesianismfrequentismdiscoverynon-empirical evidence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Unified quantum theories (81V22) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12)

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Cites Work

• The No Alternatives Argument
• Why isn’t every physicist a Bayesian?
• Severe Testing as a Basic Concept in a Neyman–Pearson Philosophy of Induction

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